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Removal and Installation

WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2005 Mercury Mountaineer and 2005 Ford Explorer. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
WARNING: Always wear safety glasses when repairing an air bag supplemental restraint system (SRS) vehicle and when handling an air bag module. This will reduce the risk of injury in the event of an accidental deployment.
WARNING: The safety belt pretensioner is a pyrotechnic device. Always wear safety glasses when repairing an air bag equipped vehicle and when handling a safety belt buckle pretensioner or safety belt retractor pretensioner. Never probe a pretensioner electrical connector. Doing so could result in pretensioner or air bag deployment and could result in personal injury.
WARNING: To reduce the risk of personal injury, do not use any memory saver devices.
NOTE: If a seat equipped with a supplemental restraint system (SRS) component is being serviced, the SRS must be depowered. 
NOTE: The air bag warning lamp illuminates when the RCM fuse is removed and the ignition switch is ON. This is normal operation and does not indicate a supplemental restraint system (SRS) fault.
NOTE: The SRS must be fully operational and free of faults before releasing the vehicle to the customer.
NOTE: LH seat shown, RH seat similar.

    All vehicles 

  1. Position the seat to gain access to all 4 mounting bolts.
  2. Depower the SRS. For additional information, refer to Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) Depowering and Repowering in the General Procedures portion of SUPPLEMENTAL RESTRAINT SYSTEM .
  3. Remove the affected seat. For additional information, refer to FRONT SEAT .
  4. Remove the seat recliner handle.

    5. Vehicles with manual lumbar 

  5. Remove the manual lumbar knob.

    6. Vehicles with power seats 

  6. Disconnect the power seat control switch electrical connector.

    7. All vehicles 

  7. Remove the front and rear side shield screws.
  8. Release the remaining retainers and separate the side shield.

    9. Vehicles with heated seats 

  9. Disconnect the heated seat switch.

    10. Vehicles with power lumbar 

  10. Disconnect the power lumbar switch.

    11. All vehicles 

  11. Remove the side shield.

    12. Vehicles with manual lumbar 

  12. Remove the 2 screws, separate the cable from the lumbar control and remove the controller.
  13. Detach the lumbar cable from the seat track and frame assembly and route it out from underneath.
    • Note lumbar cable routing for installation.

    14. Vehicles with power lumbar 

  14. Disconnect the power lumbar motor electrical connector from under the seat track and frame assembly.

    15. Vehicles with heated seats 

  15. Disconnect the backrest heated seat element electrical connector.

    16. All vehicles 

    NOTE: The recliner roll pins must not be reused. New roll pins that are included in the seat fastener service kit (78600A58) must be used.
  16. Drive out the 2 recliner roll pins (1 shown) at the backrest frame and discard them (for installation, use 2 new roll pins). Remove the 2 backrest to cushion pan pivot bolts (1 shown) and lift off the backrest.
    • To install, tighten to 23 Nm (17 lb-ft).
      Fig 1: Removing Backrest To Cushion Pan Pivot Bolts
      G03953825Courtesy of FORD MOTOR CO.
  17. To install, reverse the removal procedure.
  18. Install the affected seat. For additional information, refer to FRONT SEAT .
  19. Repower the SRS. For additional information, refer to Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) Depowering and Repowering in the General Procedures portion of SUPPLEMENTAL RESTRAINT SYSTEM .
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